Paris, who has embarked on an acting career, has previously said her grandmother Katherine Jackson wanted her to wait until she was 18 to enter show business. But she found inspiration from her father's acting.

"My Dad was in the movie Moonwalker and I knew he could sing really well but I didn’t know he could act,” she told Ellen DeGeneres late last year. “I saw that and I said, wow, I want to be just like him."